Rail-fastening device



Feb. 4, 1930. L. c. LIKENS ET AL 1,746684 RAIL FASTENING DEVICE Filed Feb. 27, 1929 Patented Feb.'4,g1930 v e se i Y I 1 mm Stem? LLOYD c. IKENsAnn rnoraas J". Davis," on GALESBUR-G, ILLINOIS f- BAIL-FASTENING n'nvicn I Application filed February 27, 1929. Serial No. 243,134. e v 7 Our invention pertains to tiesand fasteners and the said bolts pass through the round for railway rails and it contemplates the proopenmgs 6 1n the bed'plate 4. y j vision of r a simple, and inexpensive device The fish plates are secured to the web of the V through the medium'of which low joints will rails and to each other by means of the bolts 7 i V I be retained in proper position and the spikes 11 while the fish-plates are further secured to 55 will be prevented from pulling from the joint. the bed plate and to the ties by means of the The invention further contemplates the bolts 12 that pass through the square aper provision of railway joints so constructed and tures 7 of the bed plate at. v arranged that the joint will remain level with It will be gatheredfromthe foregoing that e theconsequent' prevention of injury to the the novel construction of bed plate will 'keep 7 rails at the joints. j i the rails even at all times at the joints and will Other objects and advantageous features manifestly prevent the spikes from pulling of the invention will be fully understood from from the. joint. The spikes cannot be pulled the following description and claims when the from the ties'by the rails working up and 15 same areread in connection with the draw down because this movement of the rails is; ings accompanying and forming part of this precluded; all uneven joints and lifts are prespecification, in which: j vented from accumulating and elimination of Figure 1 is a perspective view of the joint broken rails atjoints is efiected; it being a of two rails of our novel fastening 1neans. well known fact that generally rails break at Figure 2 is a similar view of our novel the joints. j, I bed plate. j l v r I The construction of our device provides for i 1 Figure 3 is a sectional view illustrating our theelimination of noise and vibration at the novel construction. I joint and becausethe rails aresecuredrigidly Similar numerals of reference designate. to each other and to the ties rocking of the correspondingparts in all the views of the cars when crossing joints is prevented and drawin s; consequently pulling of the spikes due. to We illustrate ties l and the usual rails 2. rocking is eliminated. Adapted to restbeneath the base 3 of the rails v It will be further understood that the de is a bed plate 4; having the kerfs 5, the round vice is extremely simple in construction and a'perture's6 and the square apertures 7. This inexpensive to produce and will require no .plate 4 is adapted to rest preferably on and skilled labor either in its production or atextend the distance of three complete ties al-v tachment and it assures constant level of the though they may be made longer or shorter rails at the points. in the discretionof the manufacturer. 'The] What we claim is: v 5 plate is also positioned so that the bases 8 of 1. The combination of ties, a bed plate havadjoining rails rest thereon and the said plate ing apertures formed therein whereby fas- J his secured tothe ties 1 by means of spikes 8 tenings'may beemployed to secure the plate that pass through andrest in the kerfs 5 of to the'ties; said plate being further adapted said plate. 'After the plate has been secured to be provided with apertures for therecepi t to the ties the rail is positioned thereon and tion of bolts, rails adapted to rest on the bed 9 v ,fish plates 9 are placed soas to engage the base plate, fish-plates adapted robe secured to the and web of the rails. t this point we would rails and having angular portions to engage have it distinctly understood that the fishone wall of the base of the rails, means for se-' I plates are bent downwardly at an angle at curing the fish-plates'to the bed plate and 45 the, point of contactwith the bed plat'e t so ties and'means for securing the fish-plates,

as to, receive and securely hold the flanged rails and bed plate to each other. portion of the base 3 of the rails 2wherebyv 2. The combination of ties, a bed plate creeping endwise or transversely is materially adapted to bear on the ties, a rail positioned precluded. Bolts -10 secure the fish-plates, on the plate, fish-plates adapted tobear 50 base portions 3 and bed plate 4 to each other against the rail and having an angular por.-

tion that foo-acts with the bed plate to surround the Weband base of the rail, means for securing the fish-plates to the rail, other means for securing the fish-plates to the bed plate and means for securing the rail, fishplates and bed plate to each other; said bed plate being so constructed and arranged that fastening means may enter the bed plate so as to secure said plate to the ties.

In testimony whereof We have hereunto set our hands.

LLOYD C. LIKENS. THOMAS J. DAVIS. 

